Zahia Wasko

MScIH  

Doctoral student  

Zahia Wasko is a doctoral researcher in the epidemiology of transition working group. Her doctoral work examines ethnic diversity and health outcomes in Burkina Faso using data from long-term health and demographic surveillance systems. She combines quantitative and qualitative research methods to study how social factors may influence health and access to care in Sub-Saharan Africa.

During her enrolment as a PhD student, Zahia also worked in public health research and project coordination, contributing to multidisciplinary and multinational studies on migration, health systems, and non-communicable diseases. She has co-authored peer-reviewed publications in reknowned journals i.e. eClinicalMedicine (a journal in the Lancet family) and presented her work at international conferences such as EUPHA and ECTMIH.

Her research interests include population health, social determinants of health, health inequalities, and real-world evidence generation.

Languages

Arabic (native), English (fluent), French (fluent), German (B1)

Noormal, A.S., Winkler, V., Bhusari, S.B., Horstick, O., Louis, V.L., Deckert, A., Antia, A., Wasko, Z., Rai, P., Mocruha, A.F., and Dambach, P. (2024). Prevalence of major non-communicable diseases and their associated risk factors in Afghanistan: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Therapeutic Advances in Chronic Disease 15, doi:10.1177/20406223241229850

Biddle, L., Hintermeier, M., Costa, D., Wasko, Z., and Bozorgmehr, K. (2023). Context, health and migration: a systematic review of natural experiments, eCLinicalMedicine: 102206, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.102206

Wasko, Z., Dambach, P., Kynast-Wolf, G., Stieglbauer, G., Zabré, P., Bagagnan, C., Schoeps, A., Souares, A., and Winkler, V. (2022). Ethnic diversity and mortality in northwest Burkina Faso: An analysis of the Nouna health and demographic surveillance system from 2000 to 2012. PLOS Glob Public Health 2(5), e0000267, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0000267

Wasko, Z., James, R., Cloux, A.-J., Rohleder, S., Aljadeehah, S., Boukachabia, A., Kour, P., Kugan, M., Lundberg, L., Knipper, M., Mussa, R., Blanchet, K. and Bozorgmehr, K. (2023) Pushback practices and violence towards migrants crossing European borders: A systematic review. Trop Med Int Health. 28(Suppl. 1):376-377. Organised session. 13th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health (ECTMIH). Utrecht. 2023. doi: 10.1111/tmi.13932

Sappyabanphot, J., Aye, T.T., Shreedhar, P., Wasko, Z., Antia, K. and Winkler, V., (2022). Health interventions for migrants and refugees in host Southeast Asian countries: a systematic review. European Journal of Public Health, 32(Supplement_3), pp.ckac 131-510. Poster presentation. 15th European Public Health Conference, Berlin 2022.

Other: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zahia-Wasko?ev=hdr_xprf

https://www.linkedin.com/in/zahia-wasko-2004/